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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Vatican
City, 14 February 2013
(VIS) – Archbishop Georg Ganswein, Prefect of the Prefecture of the
Papal Household and secretary to Benedict XVI, will continue to carry
out both roles and will thus accompany the Pope during his stay at
Castel Gandolfo and at the monastery that he will retire to after his
resignation from the papacy. The papal household, or "memores",
which has served the Holy Father during these past eight years will
also move to the same monastery. This was among the information given
by Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., director of the Holy See Press Office
in today's press briefing.

Fr.
Lombardi also clarified that the cardinals arriving in Rome before 1
March, the official start of the Sede vacante, will not reside in the
Casa Santa Marta residence until that date. At the same time he
commented that the pontiff's fall during the trip to Mexico last year
was not a determining factor in his decision to renounce the Petrine
ministry, nor was the report of the commission of three cardinals
(Julian Herranz, Jozef Tomko, and Salvatore De Giorgi), which the
Pope instituted last April to carry out an internal investigation on
the leak of documents.